The ‘human mind’ can be characterised by two parts. The top part or outer layer is our conscious mind, responsible for the day to day decision-making processes. It processes reason, logic, analysis, language, mathematics, short term memory, intelligence and our Ego. The conscious mind likes routine and is a creature of habit. It may only make up 5% of our mind, but it is ‘supposedly in charge’! In contrast, our subconscious or unconscious mind is the main hidden part and is responsible for our emotions. It is in control of 95% of our mind, constantly awake and alert, it records everything we do and feel. Its purpose is to seek pleasure, avoid pain, and keep us safe, it always has a positive intention to protect and help us even if the results are harmful. The subconscious mind works with feelings, images and metaphors, it is concerned with memories, creativity, imagination, recognition and our dreams. It is built on habituation and takes everything literally, learning through repetition and the intensity of our emotions. It has a strong reactive survival mechanism, that overrides everything else regardless of logic, reasoning or outside circumstances and takes the course of least resistance, so be careful what you ask it to do. If we don’t give it useful instructions then it takes them from elsewhere., advertising, peer pressure, parental and cultural programming, as well as suggestion. The subconscious mind doesn’t process negatives. Negativity is a conscious mind concept. So, when someone says, or you say, “Don’t […]